IMHO - I am not a fan of all the mumbo jumbo that goes along with the "Cloud" like it is a new invention. I worked at GTE/BBN in 1999 and we were selling all the same crap back then. With that said and having worked at EMC for a while you can have a "Cloud" on premises just means you have the hardware in one of your company locations. You can have private, shared, public or a combo.

It is the same evolution as IT security circa 1970-80s (Rainbow Book Series days), then Information Security circa 1990s, then Information Assurance circa late 90s early 2000s and now Cyber Security. With each name change consultants and companies can charge more for the same ultimate goal with each name change.

>>> As you indicated " Although we're small, We're an organization playing with ($,Â¥,â?¬,Â£) exchanges" you are on client side rather than on server. If that is right, you do not need to bother with DDoS protection, which is against server side.

>>> Noted the points raised by Jacint and Kelly Keeton. I appreciate that.

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>>> May I be kind to seek an opinion/ arguments suggesting if the In-house appliances are more "intelligent" thwarting the application level DOS/ DDoS attacks as compared to ISP provided DOS protection wherein it may even fail to detect them. or if there are other benefits owning an In-house product?

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>>> As far as Cons are concerned, I feel that the appliance may add some latency which may create issues wherein a latency of milliseconds count.

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>>> Although we're small, We're an organization playing with ($,Â¥,â?¬,Â£) exchanges and heavily regulated by the Government.

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